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Post by ripper on Dec 3, 2017 8:21:11 GMT
We've had a fine start to this year's calendar with The Black Hair and The Tip. I enjoyed both stories very much.
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Post by vaultadventcalendar on Dec 3, 2017 9:02:12 GMT
We've had a fine start to this year's calendar with The Black Hair and The Tip. I enjoyed both stories very much. Thanks, Ripper. Today's grim tale features a chap you might like to consider for your Psychic Detectives listing. Day Three brings another author about whom I know next to nothing. R. F. Broad is perhaps best remembered for Doctor Fawcett's Experiment (Charles Lloyd's Horrors, 1933) as included in The Third Pan Boor Of Horror Stories, making he or she one of a select band (Hester Holland, Guy Preston, Harold Markham, Douglas Newton and Oswell Blakeston being others) to have been published in both the 'Creeps' and 'Not At Night' series.' Bhuillaneadh sees Occultist Lance Cranford, "the greatest ghost-hunter of the century," travel to a village in the Grampians to investigate a malefic haunting .... Attachments:BHUILLANEADH.pdf (86.32 KB)
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Post by vaultadventcalendar on Dec 4, 2017 9:46:06 GMT
Artist uncredited: Weird Tales, Dec. 1938 Day fourHer first husband lay at the bottom of a deep crevasse in a Swiss glacier - but why should a snow image in his likeness strike her with such eery terror?Proper Christmassy this one, i.e., it's really miserable and features a Snowman. The last of seven Loretta Burrough stories published in Weird Tales, the first of which, Creeping Fingers , was selected by Christine Campbell Thomson for At Dead Of Night.
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Post by ripper on Dec 4, 2017 10:52:46 GMT
I usually read the advent calendar stories at night, but I can't resist a vengeful snowman tale, so I read this one straight away. Another good one, and an author that was unfamiliar to me. I could imagine this being adapted for an episode of OTR such as Lights Out or Hall of Fantasy.
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Post by Shrink Proof on Dec 4, 2017 10:55:55 GMT
Love that picture - the snowman has a touch of the "Tony Benn with a Hitler haircut" about him, don't you think?
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Post by helrunar on Dec 4, 2017 13:50:58 GMT
Looking forward to this one! That strange John Keir Cross story, "Mothering Sunday," also involves a very odd incident with a snowman...
cheers, H.
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Post by vaultadventcalendar on Dec 5, 2017 9:39:40 GMT
Day FiveChrissie Demant Last of the Weird Tales and/ or Not At Night offerings for time being, and a second pipe-smoking evil spirit in as many days. Originally intended to run this later in week but circumstances required emergency re-jig to meticulously plotted "schedule." Again, can tell you nothing about today's involuntary calendar star. If The Snowman is a model of restraint, A. V. Milyer's sole contribution to the unique magazine dispenses with subtlety in favour of the ram-it-down-your-throat approach .... Attachments:Mordecais Pipe.pdf (57.86 KB)
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Post by ripper on Dec 5, 2017 10:30:01 GMT
Two tales in which pipes feature prominently--GNS would surely approve
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Post by dem bones on Dec 5, 2017 11:21:39 GMT
Two tales in which pipes feature prominently--GNS would surely approve He's probably stuffing his bowl with old bogey even as we type. There's a particular short of Guy's I'd dearly love to include. Guess it wouldn't hurt to ask ... I'd put Flavia's short little shocker about a nasty relic of the ancient Egyptian Bast cult on my list of something to type up for the project, but since this work by her leads off this year's collection, I presume you wouldn't want something else from her pen. No such thing as too much St. Flavia, Steve, so if you've the time and inclination, then please send it on. The smart thing would be to suggest you hold back until the next one, but seeing as every calendar since #2 has been "definitely the last" ... The big plan - subject to change - is to introduce the contemporary material from next Monday. Can promise you some absolute stormers but we're way short of the required twelve stories and graphics to take us through to Dec. 24. Just saying.
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 5, 2017 16:12:32 GMT
Those few pages do indeed pack a great punch. Now, what medium-length story does it have me thinking of, where a man buys a dead serial killers home and grounds and slowly becomes one himself. I'm pretty sure a pipe is involved there too. Am almost certain it's not a Pan or a Terror Tales story....maybe from a previous Advent calendar....if anybody remembers, help me out, please!
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Post by dem bones on Dec 5, 2017 16:28:58 GMT
Those few pages do indeed pack a great punch. Now, what medium-length story does it have me thinking of, where a man buys a dead serial killers home and grounds and slowly becomes one himself. I'm pretty sure a pipe is involved there too. Am almost certain it's not a Pan or a Terror Tales story....maybe from a previous Advent calendar....if anybody remembers, help me out, please! Hi Scarlett. L. A. Lewis's The Meeschaum Pipe in Tales Of The Grotesque?
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Post by mattofthespurs on Dec 6, 2017 7:28:37 GMT
Despite not participating this year I am, as always, thoroughly enjoying the selections. Thanks Dem
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Post by dem bones on Dec 6, 2017 8:24:13 GMT
Despite not participating this year I am, as always, thoroughly enjoying the selections. Thanks Dem Sorry to hear that, Matt. If you change your mind, you are always welcome!
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Post by vaultadventcalendar on Dec 6, 2017 8:41:13 GMT
Day Six. Hard to believe this one is approaching its fortieth birthday. Way back in the early 'nineties, the late Ken Cowley kindly granted my request to revive his story, Dracula Reflects, which, I felt, had been unjustly neglected since it's initial appearance in Dark Horizons #18 (BFS, 1978). Friend Shroudeater and self duly circulated a copy in the direction of Chad Savage's Chicago-based 'zine Necropolis where it duly appeared in issue #7 (Feb. 1992). It was also provisionally lined up for the doomed final final issue of the decidedly less exotic Vat. So, permission to reprint was obtained a LONG time ago, and I'd certainly not have held Ken to it at this late stage. Have no idea who owns the copyright, but any infringement is unintentional and the story is included here as a tribute to the memory of an underrated author and one of the most scrupulously decent book-dealers it has been my privilege to do business with. Attachments:Dracula Reflects.pdf (79.82 KB)
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 6, 2017 11:21:01 GMT
Those few pages do indeed pack a great punch. Now, what medium-length story does it have me thinking of, where a man buys a dead serial killers home and grounds and slowly becomes one himself. I'm pretty sure a pipe is involved there too. Am almost certain it's not a Pan or a Terror Tales story....maybe from a previous Advent calendar....if anybody remembers, help me out, please! Hi Scarlett. L. A. Lewis's The Meeschaum Pipe in Tales Of The Grotesque? That's it! Thanks!
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